ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions lecture 
“Machiavelli the Wimp: Mocking One’s Emotions and Self- Presentation in the Renaissance”, Professor Guido Ruggiero, University of Miami

Date: Mon 19 November,
Time: 6.30pm – 7.30pm
Where: Theatre A Elisabeth Murdoch Building The University of Melbourne PARKVILLE VIC 3010
Cost: Admission is free. Bookings are required. Seating is limited.
To register visit this website.
For further information please contact Catherine Kovesi c.kovesi@unimelb.edu.au or phone 8344 8160.

Machiavelli trembling before love’s arrows? Machiavelli overwhelmed by emotion? This lecture proposes a decidedly different Machiavelli from the mythic dominating male. Looking anew at the whole range of his literary production, a distinctive more passive and more emotional Machiavelli emerges, if not as a wimp, at least with a self- mocking laugh.

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Guido Ruggiero, Chair of History at the University of Miami, is a notable historian in the fields of gender, sex, crime, magic, science and everyday culture, in Renaissance and early modern Italy. His innovative approaches include micro-history, narrative history, the melding of literature, literary criticism, and archival history. Amongst his publications are The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice; Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage and Power from the End of the Renaissance; and Machiavelli in Love: Sex, Self and Society in the Italian Renaissance.